Less glamorous or eccentric than these figures, Thomas was a prolific and occasionallyacerbic book reviewer, six feet tall, slim, loose-limbed and vigorous, who struggled withnear-suicidal depression. He had married while still an undergraduate at Oxford and hisrelationship with his wife Helen was a troubled one. He often spent time away on the longjourneys needed for his travel books, such as the The Icknield Way.
托马斯不像这些人那么有魅力,也不像他们那么特立独行。他是一位多产的书评家,笔触偶尔会有些尖刻。他身高六英尺,身材瘦削,四肢柔软灵活,充满了活力,一直在和极易导致自杀的抑郁症抗争。托马斯还在牛津大学就读时就结了婚,而他和妻子海伦的关系并不好。为了写《伊克尼尔德驿道》之类的游记,他常常出门作长途旅行。
Mr Hollis is adept at evoking the atmosphere of the time, and at negotiating thecomplicated friendships and squabbles between these poets. But it is when Thomas meetsRobert Frost, a Yankee poet determined to be published in Britain that his book comes tolife. It was Frosta stocky, quick-tempered figurewho persuaded Thomas to write poems,and who believed that words exist in the mouth, not in books. Once Thomas decided towrite verse, he did so quickly. Spurred on by Frost, and by the oncoming threat of war, atone point he wrote nearly a poem a day, including his much loved Adlestrop with its lazed,heat-filled atmosphereof that last summer before the war. Mr Hollis re-creates Thomas sprocess of writing by comparing the differing drafts of his poems, giving life to his process ofcomposition, and charting the correspondence between Thomas and Frost once the latterhad moved back to America.
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